[R] 2 "linux/R environment" questions

[Joe Byers]

Mark,

you could also try rkward a gui for R from
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/
or JGR.  I have experimented with both because like you I have been 
avoiding learning ESS, and emacs just confuses me.

rkward seems fine with a few quirks that I need to report as problems, 
like the object browser not showing the r session objects, and a couple 
of package functions not working correctly.  I hope these are just 
because I have a RHEL 4 linux system.

JGR, when I manually compiled it for my system by specifying my location 
of java 1.5.0_06, worked fairly nicely.  The autoinstall does not find 
my installation of this java version since Redhat EL4 does not support 
it.  Redhat EL5 will in the near future.  Maybe JGR will autoinstall then.

These are just GUI/programming options that I have tried.

Good Luck
Joe

Leeds, Mark (IED) wrote:
> I was working on windows xp for a while and now i am back to linux ( not
> sure which kind but I can find out if that helps ) and i just have two
> questions that are
> really environment R questions rather than R code questions.
>  
> 1) i use emacs ( or xemacs if need be ) and i vaguely being able to cut
> a line or a region in an emacs window and then paste it at my R prompt
> so that it ran. Could I be mistaken 
> or is there an  option I need to set in my environment to be able to do
> this. It doesn't seem to work and I would prefer to avoid learning ESS.
>  
> 2) I can make my linux window ( where i am working in R )  quite wide
> but if i do a print or a head on a dataframe of say 8 columns , it
> doesn't know that there is all this extra space 
> in the window and it ends  up putting the columns on top of each other
> instead of straight across and it's hard to read the data this way ? Is
> there a way to make it know that it has a lot more room than it is
> using.
>  
>  
> Thanks a lot.
>  
>  
>  
> Mark
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